This conference will explore the ways in which some of the fundamental ideas and styles that are associated with Romanticism—conceived as a movement in terms that are philosophically broad and chronologically long (indeed extending as far back as the late seventeenth century and as far forward as the early twentieth century)—have been and can be the source of a radical and humane politics.

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.  Session I - Opening Remarks and Lecture

"Value, Enchantment, and Politics"
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University

10:30 a.m.  Session II

"Of Being Numerous: Clouds and Crowds in Wordsworth's Lyric"
Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

"Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, Poussin"
W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago

1:00 p.m.  Lunch

3:00 p.m.  Session III

"The Other Enlightenment: Romanticism, Religion, and Radicalism (of the not merely philosophical sort)"
Craig Calhoun, Social Science Research Council; New York University

"After Atheism"
Colin Jager, Rutgers University

5:30 p.m.  Cocktails and Dinner at NHC

8:00 - 9:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.  Session IV

"The Politics of Sentiment"
James Chandler, University of Chicago

"Romantic Nationalism and Wordsworth's Convention of Cintra"
David Bromwich, Yale University

11:30 a.m.  Lunch

1:30 p.m.  Session V

"Dissenting Textualism: Priestley and Bentham and the Reworking of Scripture"
Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University

Limited seating available; registration required. Registration fee: $25/day. Registration deadline: October 15, 2009. For more information please contact Martha Johnson, (919) 549-0661, ext. 110 or e-mail mjohnson@nationalhumanitiescenter.org.

Image: Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1835), from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.

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